Warrior Nun Season 2 Review: A Demon Who Professes Himself A God And Some Warrior Nuns Who Must Stop Him
Stars: Sylvia De Fanti, Lorena Andrea, Alba Baptista
Director: Sarah Walker
Streaming Platform: Netflix
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3/5 (three stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
After the announcement of the non-renewal of Fate – The Winx Saga following the second season, Warrior Nun Season 2 returns to the November 2022 series on Netflix. Although there is no direct connection between the two products of the platform, it is impossible not to notice how, in some way, the way of packaging the two works is somewhat similar, placing at the center a group of female characters with incredible powers and fighting techniques, seasoned with supernatural elements. On the one hand, the most canonical magic is the one at the center of the protagonists’ actions and personalities, while in the series born from the Ben Dunn comics and arrived on the platform for the first time in 2020 it is a religion that forms the basis for the actions and behaviors of the characters, focusing on a group of warrior nuns and placing their skills at the service of faith.
Warrior Nun Season 2 Review: The Story
A doctrine that sees a real organization train its disciples to fight and of which Ava (Alba Baptista), after acquiring the much-venerated Aureola, becomes the cornerstone in the challenge against a demon who has come down to earth, who pretends to be an angel. A creature, who wants to incarnate the next God, catapult into the ordinary world at the end of the first season and who dictates the entire course of the narrative of this return. A fake (or real?) A deity who will try to be surrounded by a group of faithful and be able to start his cult, the one that the nuns will have to stop, for a battle in which Ava will put herself on the front line. It is an ambivalent feeling that drives the girl, saved by that halo that sometimes lives as a burden.
On the one hand, the sense of guilt for having somehow evoked Adrian (William Miller) and allowing him to surround himself with fanatics, on the other hand, the need not endanger people who, when in difficulty, managed to save her, despite all the contradictions and responsibilities that made her the column backbone of the coalition of warrior nuns. Therefore, if the protagonist has well in mind her goals and the emotions that drive her, in Warrior Nun it is a sense of repetitiveness and not deepening of these inputs that soon stops the season, moving forward between conspiracies and physical clashes, which have less spirit than the protagonists will want you to believe.
Warrior Nun Season 2 Review and Analysis
Even the story, although well orchestrated, seems to have only one idea that tries to stretch for the entire eight episodes, in which the twists are quite phoned, while still being able to carry on the narrative. However, it is too much going around a single point and waiting to get to face it at the end that makes Warrior Nun’s vision, constant and monotonous until closing, daunting. An end that, as every series hopes, is only the beginning of a future story, the one that would like to look at the third season but could instead lead to the same fate as the fairy colleges of The Winx Club. Because, sadly, Warrior Nun doesn’t feature anything quite that bold or eye-catching worth investigating. A feeling that the vision of the episodes themselves reveals and that poses a result perhaps tantalizing the first time, but soon rendered without substance, despite wanting to overturn the dogmas we know of the Church or as a criticism of associations or parties in which a leader is inclined to consider himself superior to mankind.
A mixture of issues that revolve around religion, belief, methods of persuasion and authority that are treated with conscience, however small, generating two warring factions in which the nuns must try to win. Questioning about the role and the figure of God for which the series does not have a strong enough grip to be able to discuss it, hinting only at bigger issues that can be contained, in a contrast between science and faith, angelic and diabolical that remains bland and superficial.
Too bad because in all this Warrior Nun Season 2 also makes use of a rather discreet representation of its monsters and their features, certainly referable to a more vintage than contemporary style, but still well done for the development of the protagonists’ enemies. One of those products that, in visual effects and staging, recalls many of those programs seen so many times on free-to-air channels in which, while not praising their success, they were still willing to overlook it, which is also attempted with the series. Netflix, but unfortunately the inconsistency of the plot is weighing on it.
Warrior Nun Season 2 Review: The Last Words
If initially, Warrior Nun had been intrigued by his group of protagonist nuns capable of knocking out anyone with their bare hands, for the second season we would have expected more, so as not to make the series simply another product with which to fill the digital corridors of Netflix. Unfortunately, however, despite the faith, the narration that Warrior Nun Season 2 presents is monotonous and repetitive, diluted until the end of its eight episodes, net of staging those intrigues, while not making one cry out for a miracle.
